INVESTIGATIONS: In the Dark

In the big Senate committee room last
week, the newsreel floodlights beat down for short intervals on the
witness chair, snapped off again as the cameramen waited for another
shot. In the floods' full glare, strange specimens came sharply into
public view, squirmed uncomfortably in the light, waited for the word
to drop back into their own shadowy world. It was a world of conspiracy
and secrecy, of Communist and informer, where the law was and is
Lenin's dictum: it is necessary to "resort to all sorts of schemes and
stratagems, employ...